Bounded by dirt

Pulled from her elite medical classes at NYU and placed under forced house arrest, twenty-two-year-old Alina Torres is a fierce, defiant captive inside a cold London estate. Trapped by a three-million-dollar debt her syndicate boss father owes, her only company is Christian Vance-a thirty-six-year-old, heavily tatted ex-Royal Marine and elite enforcer trained strictly to be a survival weapon. Christian treats her like a volatile transaction, hiding his own brutal scars behind a cold, professional mask. But Alina doesn't play by the rules of his cage. As an intense, high-friction pull drags them into a desperate romantic entanglement, a massive cartel threat forces them to execute a dangerous mutiny from the inside out. To rewrite the math of their survival, they will have to steal an entire empire or burn down the city trying.